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From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:38:01 -0400
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On 07/13/2013 08:57 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying Windows users would never want 
> to access Subversion repositories? Thanks, Jonathan 
Quite the contrary. SVN and git both work on Windows without having 
POSIX FIFOs  - Windows does have FIFOS, but the semantics are different 
than POSIX and this is why Cygwin's do not work as needed. There is no 
problem having a subprocess with stdin and stdout redirected via 
anonymous pipes to the parent: this is how git runs sub commands and 
works fine. I'm just questioning why this same construct cannot be used 
for the test harness.

Mark